Post on 28-Nov-2021
Hatchet Adapted from the original text
by Gary Paulsen
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Hatchet
Main Character
Brian Robeson
Other Characters:
Brian's Mother "The Secret" boyfriend
Brian's Father
Pilot: Jake or Jim
Chapters
1 - 4
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Brian lives with
his mother in New York.
Brian will visit his father
in Canada .
Brian is mad at mother.
Brian's mother has a "Secret".
Brian knows his mother's secret.
She has a boyfriend.
She divorced Brian's father
because of the secret boyfriend.
Brian will fly to visit his father.
Before leaving Brian 's mother gives present.
The present is a hatchet.
The pilot teaches Brian to fly.
Brian learns a little.
While flying the pilot has a heart attack and dies.
Brian calls for help on the CB radio.
The CB radio is broke.
Brian tries to fly but it hard.
He crashed the plane into a lake.
Brian swims away from the sinking plane.
Brian has only hatchet on his belt.
Brian is stranded and injured
in the Canadian woods.
Chapters
5 - 8
Brian is alone and needs to
find food and shelter.
Brian found some berries and ate them.
The berries were bad.
A day later he found raspberries and
those were very good.
Brian uses hatchet to make tools .
The tools help Brian get food and
build a shelter.
Brian is cold at night, he
needs fire to keep warm.
Brian was angry and scared so
he threw his hatchet.
The hatchet hit a rock and made a spark.
Spark equals fire.
Chapters
9 - 12
Brian bang hatchet on rock to make spark.
The spark make a fire.
Brian misses his mother and father.
Brian is always looking for food.
One day
1
he found animal tracks on the beach.
He followed the animal tracks and found eggs.
Brian ate the eggs.
Brian made a spear to fish.
While fishing he heard a plane, but the plane
did not see Brian. This made Brian sad.
Chapters
13 - 16
Brian saw many animals.
One day
1
a skunk came into his cave and stole
his eggs. Brian tried to stop the skunk
and was sprayed in the eyes.
He smelled very bad.
Brian learned he had to hide his food
from the animals. He hid the food
above his cave.
Brian made a bow and arrow to shoot birds.
After many tries he got a bird.
That night a tornado ruined his camp.
Brian was sad and mad, but he still had
his hatchet so he could build again.
When Brian was getting more wood, he
saw the plane poking out of lake.
Chapters
17 - 19
Brian swam to the plane.
Brian grabbed the emergency bag.
In the bag : Brian found
bandages, medical kit, scissors, 2 lighters, matches,
4 pans, silverware, 2 soap, knife, fishing line, hooks,
lures, sleeping bag, food, a gun and an
emergency transmitter.
Brian tried to turn on the switch on the transmitter .
The next day Brian heard a plane.
It landed on the lake.
The pilot heard the transmitter.
Brian was saved!
The pilot told Brian people had been
looking a long time for him.
Brian got home and never wasted any food.
Brian learned how hard food is
to get when
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alone in woods
The End